Global Ticket Sales Phase Opens for LA28 Olympic Summer Games

Tickets for the LA28 Olympic Summer Games have officially gone on sale to the general public worldwide.

It comes after LA28 organizers said that ticket sales in last week’s LA and OKC Locals Presale had “significantly exceeded” first-week sales for any previous Olympic Games. They added that “hundreds of thousands” of Southern Californians had secured tickets before the sales phase had opened for sports fans across the world, and that “millions” of locals had registered their interest in attending the Games.

Drop One opened on April 9, representing the earliest on-sale period for an Olympic Games.

From now until April 19, fans who were randomly selected through the LA28 Draw to receive time slots for Drop One will be able to log in during their designated time slot and purchase up to 12 tickets for any Olympic event subject to availability, including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

“The success of the Locals Presale speaks for itself: Hundreds of thousands of $28 tickets—the lowest priced Olympic tickets in modern history—were sold to LA and OKC Locals,” said LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover. “We’re thrilled by the level of interest and enthusiasm in tickets to the Games, and we’re ready to welcome millions of others to Los Angeles in 2028.”

Fan Commitments

After tracking fan feedback, including from the ticket sales phases for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, LA28 organizers have made the following commitments to fans about ticket options:

• Nearly 50 percent of all Olympic tickets will be under $200 and over 75 percent of all Olympic tickets will be under $400
• More than one million tickets will be available for $28
• Pricing will vary by sport, competition stage and ticket category
• Around five percent of tickets (for prime seats and marquee events) will cost more than $1,000

It has also been confirmed that LA28 tickets will include a 24 percent service fee, compared to 1.5 percent charged for Paris 2024. Speaking to Front Office Sports, LA28 organizers said that the increased service fees will account for processing and delivering tickets in a way that will “align with standard industry practices for ticketing live events in the U.S.”

Drop One Key Details

• Fans will be given a checkout window of 30 minutes once their first ticket is added to their cart
• Fans are advised that they should keep the available standard tickets filter on when shopping sessions by sports or zones so they are only seeing sessions with available tickets
• Available medal sessions will be visible by turning on the available medal sessions toggle in the others section of the filters
• Reminder emails will be sent 24 hours and three hours before time slots begin and will include a link to the ticket platform
• Fans can return to make multiple purchases up to their ticket maximum any time within their designated time slot
• The platform allows fans to shop across all available sports and sessions, regardless of their registration preferences
• Attendees will purchase a ticket category with specific seats assigned closer to Games time
• Up to 12 Olympic session tickets and up to 12 Football (Soccer) Tournament tickets can be purchased
• Up to four tickets can be purchased for the Opening Ceremony at 2028 Stadium (Inglewood Zone) and the Closing Ceremony at LA Memorial Coliseum (Exposition Park Zone)
• Fans who do not meet their ticket maximum or who missed their window will be automatically entered into future draws, starting from later this year

Further Opportunities

Additional ticket drops and registration opportunities will continue in the coming months, while registered participants will also be eligible to purchase additional tickets to the Paralympic Games through the Paralympic Ticket Draw, which will begin next year.

As the Games are privately funded, the operation worth more than $7 billion will be predominantly funded by ticket sales, hospitality and sponsorship.

Verified Multi-Platform Ticket Resale Program

Last month, LA28 announced that its verified multi-platform ticket resale program would open in 2027 with multiple points of access for LA28 ticket resale, including AXS and Eventim as the Official Secondary Ticket Marketplace, and other verified resale platforms Ticketmaster and Sports Illustrated Tickets.

This means that primary tickets will only be available for purchase through LA28 via AXS and Eventim, but no LA28 tickets will be available for resale (listing or publishing) until 2027.

In the initial LA28 Ticket Draw, which was open from January 14 to March 18, 2026, more than five million fans from 194 countries had registered as of late February 2026. Organizers claimed that registrations had been increasing by an average of 100,000 each day, with over 1.5 million signing up within the first 24 hours alone.

Olympic Hospitality

Premium Olympic Hospitality packages are now available through On Location, the Official Hospitality Provider of LA28.

Further information about tickets and upcoming purchasing opportunities can be found on the LA28 Ticketing page.

In total, LA28 will bring together more than 15,000 athletes from around the world, with Los Angeles becoming the third city to host three Olympic Games, after 1932 and 1984.

The LA28 Olympic Summer Games will take place from July 14, 2028, through July 30, 2028.